Talk:Carman, Manitoba
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Is there any reason why business links are featured in the external links sections? I think that they are of little importance in an encyclopedia style entry on a town. ACinfo 03:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
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Larry Woods, Carman, Manitoba.
Your statement is only half true. The small plane that struck the 500 foot CBC radio tower in Carman, Manitoba was an Airforce Airplane out of Winnipeg. And, yes, the three occupants were killed. The Airplane struck a guy line at the top of the tower, but the tower did not fall down, at that time. The top section of the tower was leaning to one side and was dangerous. Dominion Bridge Company, in Winnipeg said that they could save the tower, and sent a crew of Ironworkers out to secure it.
After having a supper meal in the Rex Cafe, the crew went out to the site to repair the tower. A Foreman and three young Ironworkers devised their plan.
The three Ironworkers, and the oldest one was twenty two years old, took a long rope and proceeded to climb the tower, passing the rope to each other, as they were climbing. The rope needed to be on the outside of the tower.
The idea here was when they got to the elevation where the tower was broken, they were going to pull up a temporary steel guy line cable, clip an eye into it, and shackel it to the broken tower leg. then, they would pull tension on the cable and pull the top tower section plumb, making it safe, until pernament repairs could be made.
The tower had a three foot face, which means, when you are viewing it from the top, it will look like a triangle and each side of the triangle is three feet. The ladder that the fellows were climbing on was on the inside of the tower.
While the three Ironworkers were climbing, and passing the rope to each other, the vibration from their movements was enough to topple the broken top of the tower and it struck the tower underneath, causing the whole tower to fall to the ground. Needless to say, the three men were on the inside of the tower and they were killed, making the death toll at six lives lost in Carman, Manitoba that day.
I was seven years old, and I was a student at Brigdenley School, near Homewood. The Teacher, Mr Howard Powell, had room and board at our house. When school was over that day, he wanted to go to Carman to see the wreckage and took me with him. I faintly rember it, however, I was too young at the time to comprehend what had happened.
Years later, in 1964, I became a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Ironworkers of America. When the 1063 foot CBC Television tower at Starbuck, Manitoba was errected, I was a connector on that tower. I was nineteen years old and this was my second tower, the first being a 550 foot CBC television tower at Timmons Ontario.
One of the people that I was a Union Brother to, was an Ironworker, name of Larry Erickson. Larry's older Brother was one of the young men killed on that tower in Carman, that night.
My name is Larry Woods. I was born in Carman, Manitoba, and I am now retired in Carman, after serving forty years as a High Rigging Structural Ironworker.
Thankyou for spending the time to read this. I have many more stories and I am easy to find in the small town of CARMAN, MANITOBA.
Moved here from article by MaxEnt (talk) 05:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC).
